Project

POPP-KAD: development of a digital land register for mid-nineteenth-century Belgium

Acronym

POPP-KAD

Code

19109012

Duration

01 November 2012 → 31 July 2018

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Eric Vanhaute

Research disciplines

Humanities and the arts
- History
- Study of regions
Social sciences
- Economic history
- Economic geography
- Human geography
- Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
- Urban and regional geography
- Other social and economic geography
Engineering and technology
- Urban and regional design, development and planning

Keywords

landownership land registry immoveable property history Comparative Geographic and map based Quantitative Surveys 19th Century Belgium

Project description

POPP-KAD is a digital land register for the middle of the 19th century. It contains the names of all

owners and a detailed description of properties, both built-on and vacant, across large parts of Belgium. These data are based on the cadastral matrices of municipalities that were published by P.C. Popp (1840-1880).